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• Five year study reveals “unacceptable” inequalities in stillbirth rates between Black, Asian and White babies

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/bmj-stillbirth

  Researchers say around 1,800 stillbirths could have been prevented between 2014 and 2019 if ethnic inequalities did not exist - a 12% reduction in the number of stillbirths Enquiry underway into the quality of care provision for Black and Asian mothers whose babies...

• Landmark study reveals hidden frailty crisis in young heart attack patients

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/heart-attack-frailty-health-risk-leicester

  Researchers in Leicester have uncovered a major blind spot in the way doctors assess future health risk in young adults who suffer a heart attack.

• Photographs of the Great Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/01/14/photographs-of-the-great-jupiter-saturn-conjunction/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 14 January 2021 In December 2020, we asked members of the Physics and Astronomy community to look up and capture a chance-of-a-lifetime conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn – here are some of the photos.

• Congressional Directories Back to the 1800s digitised

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/29/congressional-directories-back-to-the-1800s-digitised/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 29, 2023 The US Government Publishing Office (GPO) has aigitized all Congressional Directories back to the 1800s.

• Wider-reaching solutions urgently needed to reach realistic ‘net zero’, warn researchers

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/landscape-decisions-net-zero

  There should be greater investment in using a wider group of experts to make decisions about how the landscape is managed if the UK is to reach climate targets such as net zero, a new report warns.

• The Centre for Victorian Studies

  https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies

  Welcome to the Victorian Studies Centre at the University of Leicester. We have a distinguished record of innovation and excellence in interdisciplinary Victorian Studies research and teaching at postgraduate level.

• Real-world business challenges solved by adding maths students to the equation

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/maths-students-industrial-placements

  University of Leicester's School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences celebrates another round of successful collaborations between industrial partners and students.

• University of Leicester co-launches International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/avoidable-deaths

  The Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN) has launched the first International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths today (13 March) in Izumiotsu, Japan. International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths hopes to raise the visibility of disaster deaths.

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 714 April

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/talking-points-a-range-of-topics-tackled-by-academics-7-14-april

  Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans from the Centre for Medical Humanities has written an article for The Conversation exploring how it could be a good idea to discuss topics such as sex, rape and pornography in classrooms in order to properly educate young people about...

• Scientists model impact of green infrastructure on City Centre traffic pollution

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/scientists-model-impact-of-green-infrastructure-on-city-centre-traffic-pollution

  Scientists from EarthSense Systems and our University have published the results of a study into the effect of urban trees on air pollution.